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Rasmussen helps paint the Tour orange

Rabobank are in dreamland as Michael Rasmussen follows up yesterday's win by Pieter Weening with a s

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For the first few days of this race, the riders on the Dutch Rabobank team were under the cosh from their home press. Deprived of the services of world champion Oscar Freire and dependent on the still unfulfilled talents of shy and retiring Russian Denis Menchov, the team in orange and blue decided their only chance of getting some good press was to attack whenever they had the chance, and this weekend that tactic has paid off royally.

What started slowly with Erik Dekker and Karsten Kroon enjoying spells in the mountains jersey, picked up greater momentum yesterday when Pieter Weening took a fine stage win and Michael Rasmussen a big lead in the mountains competition. Like yesterday, Rasmussen was out of the block fast again today, collecting maximum points over three early climbs, but today he maintained that momentum right through the stage to the finish in Mulhouse, where he took an epic solo victory after 168km at the front of the race.

The yellow jersey changed owner as well, but this time Discovery Channel were very much in control of what was going on and probably won't be unhappy to see responsibility for leading the race pass to Jens Voigt and CSC. There was no repeat of yesterday's frantic finish which saw Lance Armstrong totally isolated from his team-mates after a flurry of T-Mobile attacks. Instead, Voigt went for what he admitted was his last chance of taking the race lead, and Discovery let him have it.

With the leading contenders calling a temporary truce before tomorrow's rest day and Tuesday's crucial stage to the summit finish at Courchevel, Rasmussen set off early in his search for more King of the Mountains points. After wrapping up the first climb, where David Zabriskie and Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano both abandoned, the Rabobank rider was joined by his former mountain bike rival Dario Cioni (Liquigas-Bianchi). The pair worked together over the next three climbs, but a chase group including Voigt and Christophe Moreau that had formed on the first of them started to close in on the day's fifth climb, the Bussang. Rasmussen upped the pace here and dropped Cioni, then pressed on up the first-cat Ballon d'Alsace.

He crested it with a lead of more than four minutes on Voigt and Moreau, and with the yellow jersey peloton almost 10 minutes back. With less than 60 mainly downhill kilometres into the finish, Rasmussen was effectively out of reach of all but the pair chasing behind him. Somehow, though, it never quite happened for Voigt and Moreau, and the lanky Dane still had three minutes in hand as he crossed the line to give his suddenly rejuvenated team two wins over the weekend and a good lead in the mountains competition to boot.

Voigt, too, was happy as he went onto the podium after Rasmussen to collect the yellow jersey he previously wore for a day in 2001. "It was my last chance to take the lead and I'm more than happy to have it," said the popular German. "The next couple of days we go to Courchevel and over the Galibier and that's definitely not my terrain. But I knew I had good legs from yesterday and that if Discovery and T-Mobile let me go I would have the lead.

"People have been asking this week why I haven't been attacking as much as usual. Well, today I did and now I'm back."